Kenneth Cragg

( Albert) Kenneth Cragg ( born March 8, 1913 † November 13, 2012 ) was an Anglican cleric, Bishop and researchers. He has appeared in more than fifty years, written numerous comments on religious subjects, especially on the Muslim- Christian relations.

Career

After his Abitur at the Blackpool Grammar School and studying at Jesus College (Oxford) Cragg got 1934 Grafton scholarship. In 1937 he was ordained.

He served first at Higher Tranmere Parish Church, Birkenhead and then in the church of All Saints in Beirut, after which he was rector in Longworth. Later he was a professor of Arabic and Islam at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut. In 1970 he became an assistant bishop of Jerusalem Episcopal Church of Jerusalem and the Middle East. From 1970 to 1974 he was Bishop of Egypt.

In 1940 he married Melita Arnold. She died in 1989.

Works (selection)

  • The Call of the Minaret (1956 ) Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 56-8005 (1964 edition, Galaxy Books).
  • Alive to God - Muslim and Christian Prayer compiled with at Introductory essay by Kenneth Cragg (1970 ) Oxford University Press, SBN 19 213 220 2
  • The Event of the Qur'an - Islam in its Scripture (1971), George Allen & Unwin, ISBN 0-04-297024-5.
  • The Mind of the Quran - Chapters in Reflection ( 1973), George Allen & Unwin, ISBN 0-04-297030- X.
  • This Year in Jerusalem - Israel Experience ( 1982) Darton, Longman & Todd, ISBN 0-232-51534-4.
  • Muhammad and the Christian (1984 ) Darton, Longman & Todd.
  • The Pen and The Faith - Eight modern Muslim writers and the Quran ( 1985), George Allen & Unwin, ISBN 0-04-297044- X.
  • The Christ and the Faiths (1986 ) SPCK.
  • Readings in the Quran - Selected and Translated by Kenneth Cragg (1988 ) Collins Liturgical Publications, ISBN 0-00-599087-4 ( pbk. ).
  • Troubled by Truth - Life Studies in Inter -Faith Concern ( 1992) Pentland Press, ISBN 1-872795-71-4.
  • Returning to Mount Hira ' (1992 ) Bellew.
  • The Arab Christian - A History in the Middle East (1992 ) Mowbray, ISBN 0-264-67257-7.
  • The Lively Credentials of God ( 1995) Darton, Longman & Todd.
  • Palestine - The Prize and Price of Zion ( 1997) Cassel, ISBN 0-304-70075-4.
  • Muhammad in the Qur'an - The Task and the Text (2001) Melisende, ISBN 1-901764-13-3.
  • Am I not Your Lord - Divine Human Meaning in Question ( 2002) Melisende, ISBN 1-901764-21-4.
  • The Iron in the Soul - Joseph and the Undoing of Violence (2009) Melisende, ISBN 978-1-901764-55-0.

Translation from Arabic

  • Hussein, Muhammad Kamel City of Wrong - A Friday in Jerusalem ( 1954) Cairo. Translation from Arabic published in 1959 by Djambatan, Amsterdam.

Credentials

  • Anglican theologian ( 20th century)
  • Anglican Bishop ( 20th Century)
  • Ecumenical personality
  • University teachers (England)
  • East Sussex
  • Born in 1913
  • Died in 2012
  • Man
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